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On this week’s <a href="http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?feed=rss2" target="_blank">Teachers Teaching Teachers</a>, we have some of our current and former students on the podcast to talk about the high school-college transition. We are also joined by a couple of National Writing Project teachers who have been involved with the “<a href="http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/3479" target="_blank">Framework for Success in Post-secondary Writing</a>” that came out a few months ago. These frameworks include this amazing list that we invite you to explore:<br />
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<h4>Habits of Mind</h4>
<p>The Framework identifies eight habits of mind essential for success in college writing—ways of approaching learning that are both intellectual and practical and will support students’ success in a variety of fields and disciplines:</p> <ul>
<li> Curiosity: the desire to know more about the world.</li>
<li> Openness: the willingness to consider new ways of being and thinking in the world.</li>
<li> Engagement: a sense of investment and involvement in learning.</li>
<li> Creativity: the ability to use novel approaches for generating, investigating, and representing ideas.</li>
<li> Persistence: the ability to sustain interest in and attention to short- and long-term projects.</li>
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Responsibility: the ability to take ownership of one’s actions and
understand the consequences of those actions for oneself and others.</li>
<li> Flexibility: the ability to adapt to situations, expectations, or dema<img alt="157118" src="http://www2.cortland.edu/dotAsset/157118.jpg" style="border: 1px solid; margin: 10px; float: right;" height="276" width="528" />nds.</li>
<li>
Metacognition: the ability to reflect on one’s own thinking as well
as on the individual and cultural processes used to structure knowledge.</li>
</ul></blockquote> <br />
Our guests on this podcast include:<br />
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<li><a href="http://www.alamo.edu/sac/english/lirvin/" target="_blank">Lennie Irvin</a> (who recently completed his PhD), is the Co-Director of the <a href="http://www.sanantoniowritingproject.org/" target="_blank">San Antonio Writing Project</a>. In addition to working with the above
frameworks, for the past four summers, Lennie has facilitated an open
institute, <strong><a href="http://www.sanantoniowritingproject.org/crosstocollege/default.html" target="_blank"><strong>Crossing2College</strong></a></strong><span class="style2"> where they’ve been </span><img alt="30883_396626788196_599788196_4184036_1954267_n" src="http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/30883_396626788196_599788196_4184036_1954267_n.jpg" style="border: 0px solid; margin: 10px; float: left;" height="209" width="141" /><span class="style2">asking:</span></li>
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><em><span class="style2">What is College Readiness in Writing? and How Do We Get There?&nbsp;</span></em>
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<p class="style1">Every year, we have far too many students like Ian. They aren’t the AP kids (though they might be), and they aren’t the students who fail our classes. They do OK, even sometimes receiving excellent grades in our high school classrooms. But when they get to college, they place into Developmental English classes, or worse (like Ian) they crash and burn and drop out of college. They fall off the bridge between high school and college. This site is devoted to local efforts to help more students graduating from high school place directly into college level writing classes, and importantly—do well in freshman composition. It is meant both as a resource and a professional community of practice dedicated to doing more to prepare our students for college and for helping these students do well once they are in college, for “college readiness” and “student success” in college are really two sides of the same coin. </p></blockquote> <ul>
<li><a href="http://writ.umn.edu/people/profile.php?UID=kjamsen" target="_blank">Kirsten Jamsen</a> whose affiliations include being the co-director of the <a href="http://writing.umn.edu/mwp/" target="_blank">Minnesota Writing Project</a>.
Kirsten <img alt="278172" src="https://apps.cla.umn.edu/directory/items/picture/278172.jpg" style="margin: 10px; float: right;" height="170" width="113" />presented on the “Frameworks for Success in Postsecondary Writing” at the National Writing Project’s Annual Meeting in November, where she discussed the statement’s purpose, and recounted the process of composing it. We’ll ask her do some of that again. We’ll also use some of her questions from that session to guide our discussion on Wednesday evening: “What is your response to the statement? How might you use it to promote effective writing instruction at your school? How could this statement help you design thoughtful professional development?”<br />
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<li><a href="http://dpulling.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">David Pulling</a> whose students at Louisiana State University, Eunice, have been posting <img alt="Musique+de+Bayou+Teche" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BR4TKqD1u7w/Sdv89L3ZcrI/AAAAAAAAAKI/2GhnX1j6ZZs/S220/Musique+de+Bayou+Teche.jpg" style="margin: 10px; float: left;" height="174" width="131" />on <a href="http://voicesonthegulf.org/" target="_blank">Voices on the Gulf</a> this year. David is the Director of Continuing Education at <em>LSU</em> Eunice, and will share his insights into what it takes to be a successful college writer as well. David is also an active member of the<a href="http://english.louisiana.edu/about-us/acadiana-writing-project/" target="_blank"> The National Writing Project of Acadiana</a>.<br />
</li>
</ul>
<p>Enjoy!</p>
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Click <strong>Read more </strong>to see a copy of the chat that was happening during the webcast.</p>
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</object><br />52:35 minutes (12.04 MB)<p>What does working in a school-based social network like <a href="http://youthvoices.net/" target="_blank">http://youthvoices.net</a> have to do with getting ready for college? Chris Sloan had a great idea. &ldquo;Why don&rsquo;t we invite former students who used Youth Voices and who are now in college to Skype in with their thoughts about what college is like these days &hellip; and if Youth Voices maybe does or doesn&rsquo;t fit with what they are doing now?&rdquo;</p>
<p>Two of Chris&rsquo;s former students joined us on this episode of <a target="_blank" href="http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?feed=rss2">Teachers Teaching Teachers</a>. Here&rsquo;s Chris&rsquo;s more detailed introduction to this week&rsquo;s podcast:</p>
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<p>It&rsquo;s that time of year again when the seniors I teach are in that bittersweet time; they&rsquo;re happy to be moving on but sad to leave some things behind.&nbsp; They&rsquo;re distracted by plans for the future but also trying to live up to their many commitments.&nbsp; As their teacher I often wonder whether the things we do in my classes has value, if I&rsquo;ve prepared them enough for &ldquo;life after high school.&rdquo;&nbsp; So I thought it might be an interesting idea to catch up with some of our former students to see how their first year is wrapping up.&nbsp; Was college all they dreamed it would be?&nbsp; Is it better than they imagined? not quite as good?&nbsp; Did the kind of work they did on Youth Voices, the digital compositions and the collaborative writing, prepare them for the kinds of things they&rsquo;ve been asked to do this year in college? Judging by the <a href="http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2010/" title="2010 Horizon Report" target="_blank">2010 Horizon Report</a>, I think we&rsquo;re on the right track, but there&rsquo;s only one way to find out.&nbsp; <br />
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Here are a couple of Youth Voices alumni who join us on this podcast: Last year Katie appeared a couple of times on TTT, first as part of a discussion about the seniors&rsquo; plans for college, <a href="http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?cat=384" title="TTT 134, Four
Young Bloggers Apply to College" target="_blank">TTT 134, Four Young Bloggers Apply to College</a> where she said things like: &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think that as an 18-year old in college, it&rsquo;s a life or death situation about whether you&rsquo;ll be successful or not.&nbsp; The college application process is a stressful thing, but you have to keep it in perspective.&rdquo;&nbsp; Katie also appeared on TTT 130, which was an extension of the Youth Voices discussion, &ldquo;<a href="http://youthvoices.net/node/2874" target="_blank">YES WE CAN: my experience in Grant Park on election day</a>.&rdquo;<br />
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We were also joined by <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/author/jimin/" title="Jimin who blogs regularly at Crunchgear" target="_blank">Jimin who blogs regularly at Crunchgear</a> in addition to being a student at NYU.&nbsp; Last year Jimin wrote posts like&nbsp; <a href="http://youthvoices.net/node/4376" title="All Your Intellectual
Property Are Belong to Us" target="_blank">All Your Intellectual Property Are Belong to Us</a>, <a href="http://youthvoices.net/node/7739" title="It's Not Fair, It's
Laissez-Faire!" target="_blank">It&rsquo;s Not Fair, It&rsquo;s Laissez-Faire!</a>, and used Youth Voices as another way to <a href="http://youthvoices.net/illegal-beagle-13th-south-ep-mind-control/11194" title="promoting his band Illegal Beagle" target="_blank">promote his band Illegal Beagle</a>.</p>
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<p class="rtecenter">Click <b>Read more</b> to see a copy of the chat that was happening during the webcast.</p>
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</object><br />59:45 minutes (18.74 MB)<p>Linda, a senior in high school started the ball rolling that led to this podcast with her <a href="http://theadmissionsoflinda.blogspot.com/2009/01/open-call-for-bloggers.html">Open Call for Bloggers</a>:</p>
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I've been thinking lately about how awesome it would be to have a group of high school students (seniors preferred, juniors okay as well) blog about the college admissions process and then possibly continue their blog through their freshman year of college....</p>
<p> SO. Here's my proposition: If you know of any high school seniors that would be interested in this idea or you're a fellow high school senior yourself--feel free to contact me through Blogger or via e-mail @ <a href="mailto:Brooklynita@gmail.com">Brooklynita@gmail.com</a>
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<p>We put Linda in touch with Lindsea, who blogs at <a href="http://lindseak.wordpress.com" target="_blank">Love &amp; Logic</a> and at <a href="http://students2oh.org" target="_blank">Students 2.0</a>, because she is also a senior at Panahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii. And we invited Linda and Lindsea onto Teachers Teaching Teachers to tell us about their journies into the college admissions process.<br />
We also invited two seniors who have been working with Chris Sloan at Judge Memorial Catholic High School:</p>
<ul>
<li>Alli, who blogs at <a href="http://alliberryonline.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Fibers</a></li>
<li>Katie, whose post, &quot;<a href="http://youthvoices.net/node/2874" target="_blank">YES WE CAN: my experience in Grant Park on election day</a>,&quot; drew a lot of interest on Youth Voices in November.</li>
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We were also joined by a recent graduate from Mt. Holyoke College, Mattie... and toward the end Jack Yu let us know about the work he has been doing to help high school students learn SAT vocabulary words on <a href="http://www.brainyflix.com" target="_blank">Brainyflix</a>.<br />
Enjoy this free-wheeling conversation with these young bloggers. Imagine with them what the college application process would look like if admissions officers were available on Twitter, and they could take the time to really follow these students' online lives. These young women would love for a college to Google them!
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<p>Our guests this week were two Writing Project teachers who use Drupal in their work with students and teachers.</p>
<ul><li>Jason Shiroff is a 4th/5th Grade teacher at the Odyssey School in
Denver, Colorado. Jason is also the Tech Liaison for the Denver Writing
Project.</li><li>Will Banks is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English
at East Carolina University, and he is the Director of the Tar River
Writing Project.</li></ul>
<p>Check out some of what we talked about in this week’s <a href="http://www.google.com/notebook/public/04358793573726113227/BDQOrSwoQuf37vaQi" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Google Notebook</a>.</p><p><a href="http://edtechtalk.com/node/1617" target="_blank">read more</a></p>http://edtechtalk.com/node/1617#commentsTeachers Teaching TeacherscollegeDrupalDrupalEdelememtary schoolFri, 04 May 2007 02:39:20 +0000Paul Allison1617 at http://edtechtalk.com